Michael Mckenna

Michael McKennaQueensland Editor

Michael McKenna is Queensland Editor at The Australian.

QUEENSLAND’S electricity network will effectively be privatised under a move to raise almost $30bn through long-term leases.

A PROPOSAL to build a second mosque on the Gold Coast has been rejected by the local city council.

THE Queensland government’s hand-picked co-ordinator general will have sole authority over major mining projects.

WEST Australian police have failed to deliver a mandatory investigatory report into a death in custody.

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QUEENSLAND’S Cape York mayors are demanding control over the proposed extension of welfare quarantining.

QUEENSLAND Labor is moving quickly to lock in Kate Jones to stand against Campbell Newman in the Brisbane seat of Ashgrove.

THE controversial Abbot Point coal port will take dredge spoil as landfill from operations all along the Queensland coast.

CAMPBELL Newman is facing his toughest political fight, with former Labor MP Kate Jones to run for the seat she lost to him.

ALMOST 3 million cubic metres of dredge spoil is now set to be used as land fill at the Abbot Point port.

THE Wik people may block a Queensland government decision to appoint Glencore as the “preferred proponent’’ to mine a massive bauxite deposit.